Word: oruro
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...shouting, the mob boiled down La Paz' cobbled streets to the jail. There they broke in, seized Jorge Eguino and José Escobar, the Villarroel police chiefs held since July for trial. These were the men who had admitted directing the massacre of scores of oppositionist leaders at Oruro in November 1944. Both were dragged twelve blocks to the plaza's lampposts. Escobar was probably dead before he got there, but they hanged him anyway...